Find out how to restore your peace in this podcast. The Hebrew word for Peace, Shalom (Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם‎ shalom) is not just an absence of trouble, but a restoring of wholeness. 

It refers to a stone that has no cracks.  Life is a complex web full of moving parts and circumstances, when you are lacking peace—it means you are missing someone, or something is broken like a relationship.  It needs to be restored.  To make complete, to restore is to have peace. To make shalom, is to make peace, or restore what was lost. Peace is tranquility—or restoring of brokenness.

If you seek peace, apart from God, you may find it—temporarily, but in the end you will not only lose God, but also your peace as well. 

“God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

–We are  foolish to try to  align God to what we want, but we should align our heart to Him. Prayer is not a control of God but a submission of my will to his.  In this recorded talk, I dive deep into this issue from the text of Isaiah 57: 17-20

When A loves B and B does not or refuses to love A back, A loses something. But when God loves B, it is not God who loses, it is B.

God hurts, not because he has lost, not because he does not hurt, he hurts because you have lost something of infinite worth.

The great Augustine…proposed the following little thought experiment to show you, his reader, that your deepest desire is indeed the desire for a relationship, and that is found in God not from God [Augustine, Ennarationes in Psalms 127:9] .Imagine God appeared to you and said, “I’ll make a deal with you if you wish. I’ll give you anything and everything you ask: pleasure, power, honor, wealth, freedom, even peace of mind and a good conscience. Nothing will be a sin; nothing will be forbidden; and nothing will be impossible for you. You will never be bored and you will never die. Only…you shall never see my face.” Would you accept this challenge?

If you LOVE anything more than God your life will be like a tossing sea, you will always be in anxiety or it will come. You will have restlessness.  Once you love God first, as  your priority….then you enjoy everything else. And then and only then is peace found. But that peace is not easy to maintain.

Look forward to your, hopeful, peaceful feedback!